UPDATE: Poetry and Politics (UK) (1/15/06; 7/13/06-7/16/06)

Call for papers: Poetry and Politics. A Conference at the University ofStirling, Scotland, 13-16 July 2006.=20

Abstracts of 200-250 words of papers not lasting longer than twentyminutes in delivery should reach the organisers by our extended deadlineof January 15, 2006. Many thanks to all those who have alreadyresponded. Everyone concerned will receive a formal decision on theirsubmission by mid January as previously advertised.

Papers are invited which consider the theme of politics in relation topoetry from classical antiquity to the contemporary. The following listsuggests some possible areas for development, but proposals in any arearelating to the conference theme of poetry and politics will be welcome:

The politics of stratifications and hierarchies based on constructionsof race, class, age, religion, gender or physical / mental ability;notions of the public and the private; the figure of the exile; thepolitics of dialect and 'non-standard' English; the protest song;prophets and seers; the figure of the committed poet; patriotism andnationalism; globalisation and parochialism; the politics of landscapeand environmentalism; mythopoeia; conservatism and radicalism; thepolitics of tradition; the politics of reading and teaching poetry; thepolitics of language and the ineffable; the politics of translation;sites of protest, such as the coffee house, the tavern or the rockconcert; modes of protest; popular dissent and politics; scurrilousverse and libel; patronage and politics; poetry and religious politics.=20

We are happy to accept enquiries and abstracts via email topoetryandpolitics_at_stir.ac.uk <mailto:poetryandpolitics_at_stir.ac.uk> .Abstracts may also be posted to Poetry and Politics Conference,University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA. Further details areavailable on the conference webpages: www.poetryandpolitics.stir.ac.uk<http://www.poetryandpolitics.stir.ac.uk/>=20

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